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Colocation is a hosting option for small businesses who want the features of a large IT department without the costs. Colocation allows you to place your server machine in someone else's rack and share their bandwidth as your own. Colocating the server gives you the greatest flexibility.

Co-Location hosting is different from normal Shared, VPS or Dedicated server hosting. In all these hosting plans, the server hardware belongs to the hosting provider, you just rent some space or entire server by paying the applicable charges.

Colocation is nothing but a data center facility in which business can rent space for servers. The cost of colocation is higher than hosting your server at home. You can get very good services if you go with colocation hosting.

1. They provide must fast internet connection than any of your residential or business plans.
2. Colocation hosting providers have data centers which can supply ample power to hundreds of web servers.
3. They also provide ample cooling to your web server to keep them running in top condition.

Colocation is the service in which the data center used to provide the space for your server as well as hardware on rent. In this approach the service provider will provide you the storage space, bandwidth, physical security, power and you will provide your server or hardware. The main advantage of this service is that your overall cost of building and maintaining the data center is get reduced as well as you don't have to worry about the security, hardware part.

The storage space is nothing but the rank or cabinet provided by the service provider.

Colocation is a hosting option for small businesses who want the features of a large IT department without the costs. Many large corporations have the Internet infrastructure to host their own web servers and have a team of IT professionals to manage and design the site, individuals and small companies do not. There is a wide range of options available from simple hosting up to running your own Web servers off of a dedicated Internet connection.

Colocation hosting is the practice of housing privately-owned servers and networking equipment in a third party data centre. Instead of keeping servers in-house, in offices or at a private data centre, companies can choose to ‘co-locate’ their equipment by renting space in a colocation centre.A colocation provider will rent out space in a data centre in which customers can install their equipment, but will also provide the power, bandwidth, IP address and cooling systems that the customer will require in order to successfully deploy their server.

Co-location refers to the way IT equipment and resources are located or installed. This usually refers to the networking hardware resources owned by an organization, such as Web or database servers, which are located outside the vicinity of the organization's premises and "co-located" with another organization's hardware, usually an ISP or a service provider. This is usually done because the ISP might be the best candidate for maintaining the Web server hardware for the organization and it would be better to keep the hardware in a more suitable place since ISPs have specially built places for networking hardware.